Federico Zuccaro

Paradise

1565–77
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor, gouache, highlighted with white gouache, left and central sections squared in red chalk, on three sheets of brown paper, joined vertically. A piece of brown paper with figures of Christ, the Virgin, and St. John the Baptist, measuring 14.0 x 24.0 cm., has been affixed at the center of the drawing.
40.3 × 113.8 cm (15.9 × 44.8 in)

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